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Author Timothy J. Adams's explosive fiction debut follows one young man escaping oppression. as fifty divided states struggle in the aftermath of the national government becoming insolvent. Beginning in Arlington, Virginia-where state government is anything but democratic-teenager Jeremy Voorhies ponders his future plans. At first, he'd love to prove himself enough to become a soldier at the Virginia Military Institute (VMI). Then he will assi...

Maybe she doesn't wear eye shadow like a 'decent woman, ' but Hank thinks that the mysterious hippy selling trinkets at the 1974 California drag race might offer a clue to help him win ported cylinder heads for his beloved hot rod 'Cuda. Hank can't stand his supermarket cashier job, or life with his lonely, drunken mother, his 'Cuda is all he has. Instead, the hippy furnishes a lead on a vastly bigger prize: the legendary Cuauhtémoc cup, missi...

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The JROE represents a new forum for advancing, integrating, and challenging the theory and body of evidence surrounding the organization of education. Committed to scientific empiricism, this journal's editors and editorial board seek to coalesce and vitalize decades of theoretical work and research that holds promise for our understanding and improvement of organizations, especially, but not only, schools. The development and testing of a bod...

Saying goodbye to life is tragic, saying goodbye to death is magic, staying at the heart of the fiction, we who create imaginary vessels that we gravitate with, long-winged insects of the inside of our mind, fluttering about and shuddering, a million little two-toed legs rubbery and glued to the walls. The walls, of our most precious, personal, parasitic thoughts. - A fiction of superfluousness, undesirable, unadmirable, enchanted. Written in ...

A carnival of moods. Embracing all possibilities of time. Stunned, swift, brief, nonsense. Little word sculptures crawl but cannot walk. An utterance so unsubstantiated. Unnatural & natural sounds. A turmoil of mischief, poetry circa 2016, written primarily in the alcoves of Mary Majaks and her webs of populist desiring.

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On the surface, the use of photography in autobiography appears to have a straightforward purpose: to illustrate and corroborate the text. But in the wake of poststructuralism, the role of photography in autobiography is far from simple or one-dimensional. Both media are increasingly self-conscious, argues Timothy Adams, and combining them intensifies rather than reduces the complexity and ambiguity of each taken separately. Focusing on works...

A user-friendly guide to identifying and understanding the spiders of the Pacific Coast. There are 67 families of spiders found in North America, and 59 of them can be found in California. This field guide will cover all 59 of those families, including introduced species and common garden spiders--those will be given extra coverage. Each family is reviewed including details of their identification, taxonomy, distribution, and natural history. ...

All autobiographers are unreliable narrators. Yet what a writer chooses to misrepresent is as telling -- perhaps even more so -- as what really happened. Timothy Adams believes that autobiography is an attempt to reconcile one's life with one's self, and he argues in this book that autobiography should not be taken as historically accurate but as metaphorically authentic.Adams focuses on five modern American writers whose autobiographies are p...

I guess I need to tell you where I am and why." Timothy Adams, a long-time critic of the Bush Administration's illegal wars and policies, gets tapped by the political base in Honolulu, Hawaii to manage one of the state offices charged with verifying voter and candidate identification and balloting for the national electoral cycle of 2008. He is present when the controversy over the candidacy of then Senator Barack H. Obama, who claims to have ...

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Globalization poses a formidable dilemma for the third-world state. While there are compelling external pressures to liberalize domestic economies, market-oriented reforms threaten the economic well-being of various societal groups. Popular resistance to these reforms has been strong throughout the developing world. This volume examines the political strategies employed by third world governments to maintain programs in the face of domestic op...

Three Thieves meet at a local bar to finish planning their bank robbery, a robbery that will take place when the timing is just right. Or has it already taken place?

A book of poems written between 2010-2014 inspired by Ángel Maturino Reséndiz aka the railcar killer. The language is not intended to be factually accurate but to be an interpretation of the psychologies at work.

The 1919 World Series contains some of the most interesting occurances in the history of major league baseball. One team was giving maximum effort to win this world series while members of the other team were making efforts to lose the same contest. The background, motivation and outcomes of these efforts have long been a mystery. While there have been numerous efforts to explain these circumstances, this work is a fresh approach to understand...